Calendar



(No Model.)

B. A. PARSONS.

CALENDAR. No. 402,965. Patented May 7, 1889..

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EDXVARD A. PARSONS, OF NEYV HAVEN, CONNECTICUT.

CALEN DAR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 402,965, dated May 7,1889.

Application filed January 14:, 1889. Serial No. 296,232, (No model.) 7

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, EDWARD A. PARSONS, of New Haven, in the county ofNew Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented a new Improvement inCalendars; and I do hereby declare the following, when taken inconnection with accompanying drawing and the letters of reference markedthereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, andwhich said drawing constitutes part of this specification, andrepresents a calendar complete.

This invention relates to an improvement in that class of calendars inwhich the days of the month, the days of the week, and figures toindicate the days of the month, appear, all permanent, immovable, andunchangeable,on the face of the calendar. Under the more generalarrangement of this class of calendars an independent set of figuresappear for each month.

The object of my invention is the production of a calendar of this classin which buta single set of figures may readily indicate the days ofeach successive month, and whereby a calendar of the same size of typemay be produced in much smaller space than can be done under the usualarrangement; and it consists in the representation of the months, with aseries of names or abbreviations for the days of the week in line witheach month, the lines of the days of the week beginning with the day ofthe week upon which the first day of the month occurs, combined with aseries of figures arranged in rows of seven, from 1 to 31, the firstbeing in line with the said days of the week representing the first dayof the month, and so on, as more fully hereinafter described.

In the illustration the calendar is represented as printed upon a card.At the upper left-hand side in a vertical column the abbreviations ofthe months appear from January to December, inclusive. Adjacent to thiscolumn of month-indicators are seven columns representing the seven daysof the week, and in line with each month is the name or abbreviation ofthe name of the seven days of the week, the first being the day of theweek upon which the first day of the month occurs, and so on. As hererepresented the calendar is for the year 1889, the first day of Januarybeing Tuesday, the first day of February Friday, the first day of MarchFriday, the first day of April Monday, and so on, the first column ofweek-days representing the first days of the week on which therespective months begin.

For convenience, at the opposite side of the calendar a column appearswhich represents the number of days in each month.

Below the columns of days of the week is a series of figures, from 1 to31, inclusive, arranged in rows parallel with the days of the week, thefigure 1 standing under the column of days of the week representing thefirst day of the month, and so on, the series of figures being in rowsof seven, corresponding to the seven days ofthe week.

To ascertain the day of the month, suppose it to be the third Friday inMay. Referring to the month of May and following the line of days of theweek from May till Friday appears, then in the same line of figures thethird day of that line indicates the seventeenth. This illustration willbe sufficient to indicate the use of the calendar.

To prevent confusion, the style of type for each month may be varied,say as represented for January and February in the illustration.

It will be understood that the column of figures representing the numberof days in each month at the right may be omitted and that the positionof the days of the Week may be changed-that is, a portion above andothers below the figures, or the days of the week may be vertical; butin any case the figures and the days of the week must have the samerelation to each other and to the names of the respective months.

I claim- The herein-described calendar, consisting of a series of namesrepresenting the months, a line of names or abbreviations extending fromeach month, each line representing seven successive days of a week, thefirst day. represented being the day of the week on which the first dayof the month occurs, combined with a single series of figures, from 1 to31, arranged in lines corresponding to the said days of the week, thefigure 1 being in line with the representation of the day of the week onwhich the month begins, and the successive figures arranged accordingly,substantially as described.

EDWARD A. PARSONS. Witnesses:

FRED O. EARLE, J. H. SHUMWAY,

